Incident #992336
West Rutland, Rutland Cty, Vermont
Sep 1985
Account
At the home of Ed and Theresa Davis, two miles west of West Rutland, friends and family members heard strange grunts and shrieks. Bob Davis and Frank Grabowski walked up a dirt logging road to investigate and saw a black gorilla-like creature standing upright and advancing towards them. It threw stones at them as they retreated, then close to the house they started throwing stones at it, and it fled. Al Davis had circled behind the house to see who was "pranking" and was on a ledge overlooking the road set to grab the culprit, but was confronted with something big, "humungous in the shoulders." A friend, Roscoe Jones, saw the creature, and several noted a nauseating odour. Frank found six large tracks in the hard gravel road where the creature was seen, which Warren Cook cast and photographed.
When
- Observation Date
- SEP 20 1985
- Month
- Sep
- Year
- 1985
- Season
- fall
- Time of Day
- before 10 p.m.
- Duration
- considerable
Where
- State / province
- Vermont
- County
- Rutland Cty
- Nearest Town
- West Rutland
- Latitude
- 4336
- Longitude
- 7303
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- road
- Near or/at
- occupied building
- Tracks
- found later
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 3
- No. of Track Witnesses
- several
Setting
- Terrain
- farms and woods
Source
- Source
- Monsters of the Northwoods and Rutland, VT, Daily Herald, Sep. 25, 1985, Warren Cook quoting Bob and Al Davis and Frank "Fron" Grabowski III, 16, West Rutland, VT.
Creature description
- Height
- 7 ft
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Colour
- black
- Movement
- walking
- Later Movement
- fled
- Movement re observer
- towards observer
- Aggressive To
- observer
- Arms Used
- for throwing
- Object Handled
- rock
- Sound
- gruntýscream
- Odour
- strong
- Human Contact
- followed
- Reaction
- ran afterýfled from
- Evidence Left
- footprints
- Position when first seen
- erect
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 14.0
- Greates Width
- 7.0
- Number of Tracks
- 6
- Number of Toes
- 5
- Size of Toes
- toes more of a size than human's
- Longest Toe
- middle
- Material Tracks Made in
- gravel
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- at homeýoutside on foot
- Closest horizontal distance
- close
- Action on sighting
- harassed